‘Human’s Path’ is a track by Hong Kong artist Jacky Cheung, released in 1990 as the theme song to a film called ‘A Chinese Ghost Story 2’. Why are we […]
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China to introduce ‘youth mode’ time limits for short-video apps
The challenge of levering children off their favourite app is one being grappled with by parents across the world, whether it’s YouTube, Fortnite, TikTok or Roblox. Now the Chinese government […]
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Report predicts 530m electronic-music listeners in China by 2021
NetEase’s electronic-music brand Fever has worked with research firm Nielsen on a report that tries to quantify the market for dance music in China. Among its claims: that there will […]
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Tencent Music financials reveal revenues grew by 72.9% in 2018
It’s not just Spotify enduring the slings and arrows (well, share-price drops) of life as a public music-streaming company. Tencent Music published its latest financial results overnight, and saw its share […]
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Direct streaming deals in China can run to ‘millions of dollars’
In the west, the thought of Spotify and Apple Music signing direct licensing deals with artists – cutting out labels and even distributors – is causing a certain amount of […]
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Tencent Music invests in music-streaming service Douban FM
Tencent already owns three of the main music-streaming services in China. Now it has invested in a fourth: Douban FM. However, the deal is being described (by TechNode) as a strategic […]
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IDC releases smartphone figures for China and India
Research firm IDC has been putting out its latest numbers on smartphone shipments around the world, including China and India – both countries of considerable interest to the music industry […]
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Country Profile – China 2019
When China’s music business inevitably takes its place in the top fi ve global markets, how is the rest of the industry poised to profit from its impact? Some of the major digital players are already in the game…
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British music industry to send trade-mission to China
China is already a top-10 recorded-music market according to the IFPI, with western labels and artists alike keen to understand how they can reach audiences and generate income there. British […]
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Could China be the model for music-streaming growth in Japan?
Japan may be the world’s second-largest recorded-music market, but in terms of music-streaming, it is still early days for a country where CD is still the prime format. Midia Research […]
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Global music-streaming: ‘For growth you have to look outside of the Western markets’
Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon may dominate many of the discussions about music-streaming, but there is more to the global streaming market than the biggest players.
A strand at Music Ally and Music Biz’s NY:LON Connect conference in London today explored life beyond the big beasts, although it started with Nielsen Music’s VP global Helena Kosinski providing a global overview of streaming.
The IFPI, she said, is claiming that “music is a growth industry once more”, seeing 41% YOY growth. “It is actual money,” she argued, “and not just streams.”
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Chinese government clamps down on short-video apps’ content
There may be trouble brewing for TikTok and the other ‘short-video’ apps that have proven so popular in China over the last year. The Financial Times reported on a new […]